NEW ORLEANS — Community leaders in Algiers are honoring the lives of three children who drowned in the Mississippi River almost two years ago.A plaque is now in place on the levee near its ...

A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi. "It's almost like a triangle," Jones says. "As this flow in the Mississippi River ...

Low water on the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 11. The unusually low water level is evidenced by the exposed pier cap pile of the bridge. Rogelio V. Solis/AP ...

A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi. "It's almost like a triangle," Jones says. "As this flow in the Mississippi River ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks at a celebration of the project to deepen the lower Mississippi River’s navigation channel to 50 feet, in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.

learn from the New-Orleans Picayune of the 15th inst., that the steam frigate Mississippi and the St. Louis have joined the Brooklyn in the blockade of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

This summer’s Mississippi River “dead zone” could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico off of Louisiana.

The Mississippi River is at record low levels, ... An underwater sill is constructed near the mouth of the Mississippi River to block seawater pushing up river, on October 18, 2022.